Adder cells using Gate Diffusion Technique (GDI) & PTL-GDI technique are described in this paper. GDI technique allows reducing power consumption, propagation delay and low PDP (power delay product) whereas Pass Transistor Logic (PTL) reduces the count of transistors used to make different logic gates, by eliminating redundant transistors. Performance comparison with various Hybrid Adder is bee...

In this study, the potential use of Palm Tree Leaf (PTL) particles for the removal of copper ions from aqueous solution was investigated. The effects of shaking time, Cu concentration and equilibrium pH on the biosorption of copper ions from aqueous solution were studied. Batch biosorption experiments proved the technical feasibility of using PTL particles to remove copper ions from aqueous sol...

A modular formalization of the branching time temporal logic CTL∗ is presented. Our formalization subsumes prior formalizations of propositional linear temporal logic (PTL) and computation tree logic (CTL). Moreover, the modularity allows to instantiate our formalization for different formal security models. Validity of axioms and soundness of inference rules in axiomatizations of PTL, UB, CTL,...

AIM CCL20, also known as MIP-3 alpha, is a chemokine that participates in chemotaxis of immature dendritic cells, effector/memory T-cells, and B-lymphocytes. The objectives of this study were to determine whether CCL20 can be detected in amniotic fluid (AF) and if AF concentration of this chemokine changes with advancing gestational age, parturition (term and preterm), and intra-amniotic infect...

OBJECTIVE To assess the accuracy and determine the optimal threshold of sonographic cervical length (CL) for the prediction of preterm delivery (PTD) in women with twin pregnancies presenting with threatened preterm labor (PTL). METHODS This was a retrospective study of women with twin pregnancies who presented with threatened PTL and underwent sonographic measurement of CL in a tertiary cent...

Personalized Transductive Learning (PTL) builds a unique local model for classification of each test sample and therefore is practically neighborhood dependant. While existing PTL methods usually define the neighborhood by a predefined (dis)similarity measure, in this paper we introduce a new concept of knowledgeable neighborhood and a transductive SVM classification tree (t-SVMT) for PTL. The ...

Primary testicular lymphoma (PTL) is a rare, aggressive form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) with a poor prognosis. The standard treatment strategy for cases of PTL with advanced stage at diagnosis, especially those with central nervous system (CNS) involvement, remains to be established. Here, we report the case of a 63-year-old Japanese man who developed PTL with CNS involvement, and was safe...

We introduce an extended formulation of multi-task learning (MTL) called parametric task learning (PTL) that can systematically handle infinitely many tasks parameterized by a continuous parameter. Our key finding is that, for a certain class of PTL problems, the path of the optimal task-wise solutions can be represented as piecewise-linear functions of the continuous task parameter. Based on t...